Media Presentation on “Monet’s Water lilies” and “Vietnam”
There is a connection between the two poems that I wanted to explore visually, with sound, and with text. In the first line of the poem, Monet’s Water lilies, the speaker mentions news from “Saigon” which “poisons the air like fallout” (Hayden 1-2). In order to escape from his tortured reality, the speaker retraces his steps back to the museum “again to see the serene, great painting that [he] loves” (Hayden 4). The interactive experience that the speaker portrays with the painting leads to the posing of a universal truth about art. In the final stanza of the poem, it is suggested that the pieces of art that each person loves is because of the art’s ability to rekindle a feeling of something that has been lost by the individual. The emotion we feel in looking at a piece which moves us, according to the speaker, is the “shadow” of the original experience because it invokes only the memory of the thing, not the thing itself. Thus, despite his loss of innocence, the painting is able to transport the speaker back to a time when his life was innocent and allow him to temporarily indulge in the memory.
Ideally, I would have been able to use flash for this project and interpose images of the painting with images from the Vietnam War. I would like to have been able to have strings of text appear over the images from both poems in a randomly generated fashion. Sound and music are very significant to me, so I would have liked to parse in clips of Enya’s, “Watermark” punctuated by excerpts of Bad Company’s, “Bad Company”, each connected to the appropriate images that were flashing on the screen. I may even have gone as far as incorporating periods of silence with the sounds of war: screaming, gunshots, helicopters etc. I would want to end the project with an extended view of the painting, Monet’s Water liles in grand scale and then with an image of the Vietnam memorial, slowly panning down until it faded into oblivion. And perhaps, it will be created one day. I have my father’s photo album from his tour there and would love to be able to use his original images since my poem is about his experience.
What I was able to do currently, was to focus on the actual text. I took both original poems and created a Wordle using as many words as were allowed. All of the words from “Monet’s Water lilies” (the poem) fit but at 300 words, I still had to truncate my original poem, “Vietnam.” There was no way to control what 300 words were picked by the program. I regenerated the text choice and layout many times until I was happy with the arrangement and word choice. Then I tried to choose font and color that was suggestive of mood I was trying to create. After seeing what both originals looked like, I decided to look for the core or heart of each poem. In the “Water lilies”, it was basically the title and the last stanza. In my poem, I choose individual words and phrases. I did this all in Wordle having the computer help me to revise both poems until I felt the visual experience mirrored the essence of the meaning that I was trying to convey. I chose, after much debate, to leave the original poems’ texts out. This was my current way of letting go of ownership and releasing the creation.
Despite its unclear origins as belonging to painting or poetry, Joris attributes it to painting due to the spatial medium
Problematic since you take in a painting at a glance and cannot do so with a virtual collage—text involves the temporal medium as well (it takes time to read and process)
Hypertext bridges the gap by combining both the visual and the verbal aspects
Hypertext and hypermedia always exist as virtual, rather than physical texts
Digital words and images take the form of semiotic codes
Digital infotech
Virtuality
Fluidity
Adaptability
Openness
Processability
Infinite duplicability
Capacity for being moved about rapidly
Networkability
Digital Text is fluid and thus, infinitely adaptable to different needs and uses
Collage arose within Cubism and offered a new approach to picture space that is limited in digital media
Projects rely on layers of illusory representations piled upon one another to create one acceptable illusion
Discussion Question:
Considering the fluid and adaptable nature of virtual collage, is there a need or a way to arrive at a common interpretation of the lexia? If not, can there truly be authorial intent?
Recombination of text--new story every time but some lines and characters reappear in subsequent stories
Distinct paragraphs indicated by spacing--some are one line some are three or more
Text appears after the sound and colorful intro ends
Simple font
Distinct pattern of text generation:
First "paragraph" introduces a character followed by a statement that produces a conflict or problem for that character
Second "paragraph" is where a specific result occurs
Third "paragraph" involves a new character who interacts with the initial character in a similar manner to the conflict posed in the first
Fourth "paragraph" Introduces a third character with a new problem/conflict that is unrelated to the previous conflict/problem.
Fifth "paragraph" is where another specific result occurs which is different from the initial one introduced in paragraph two
Sixth "paragraph" focuses on how each of the characters feel about he other as a result of the experience
typically the third character feels some way about the first character and the second character feels some way about the third
Reading Experience
Mostly passive interaction by the "reader" as there is no control able to be exerted over the textual environment once it begins. The lines appear at an easily readable rate that invites the reader to try to create meaning between each section of text. There is time for reflection at the end of the piece as the interactor must press "new story" to move on to another narrative. The focus of interaction is primarily based on attempting to establish coherent meaning between the various sections of the narrative which is sometimes, simply not possible.Water lilies Presentation Description
MSA Storyland
CAP Screening the Page
CAP Electric Line
MSA Soliloquy
Final Project
Media Presentation on “Monet’s Water lilies” and “Vietnam”
There is a connection between the two poems that I wanted to explore visually, with sound, and with text. In the first line of the poem, Monet’s Water lilies, the speaker mentions news from “Saigon” which “poisons the air like fallout” (Hayden 1-2). In order to escape from his tortured reality, the speaker retraces his steps back to the museum “again to see the serene, great painting that [he] loves” (Hayden 4). The interactive experience that the speaker portrays with the painting leads to the posing of a universal truth about art. In the final stanza of the poem, it is suggested that the pieces of art that each person loves is because of the art’s ability to rekindle a feeling of something that has been lost by the individual. The emotion we feel in looking at a piece which moves us, according to the speaker, is the “shadow” of the original experience because it invokes only the memory of the thing, not the thing itself. Thus, despite his loss of innocence, the painting is able to transport the speaker back to a time when his life was innocent and allow him to temporarily indulge in the memory.
Ideally, I would have been able to use flash for this project and interpose images of the painting with images from the Vietnam War. I would like to have been able to have strings of text appear over the images from both poems in a randomly generated fashion. Sound and music are very significant to me, so I would have liked to parse in clips of Enya’s, “Watermark” punctuated by excerpts of Bad Company’s, “Bad Company”, each connected to the appropriate images that were flashing on the screen. I may even have gone as far as incorporating periods of silence with the sounds of war: screaming, gunshots, helicopters etc. I would want to end the project with an extended view of the painting, Monet’s Water liles in grand scale and then with an image of the Vietnam memorial, slowly panning down until it faded into oblivion. And perhaps, it will be created one day. I have my father’s photo album from his tour there and would love to be able to use his original images since my poem is about his experience.
What I was able to do currently, was to focus on the actual text. I took both original poems and created a Wordle using as many words as were allowed. All of the words from “Monet’s Water lilies” (the poem) fit but at 300 words, I still had to truncate my original poem, “Vietnam.” There was no way to control what 300 words were picked by the program. I regenerated the text choice and layout many times until I was happy with the arrangement and word choice. Then I tried to choose font and color that was suggestive of mood I was trying to create. After seeing what both originals looked like, I decided to look for the core or heart of each poem. In the “Water lilies”, it was basically the title and the last stanza. In my poem, I choose individual words and phrases. I did this all in Wordle having the computer help me to revise both poems until I felt the visual experience mirrored the essence of the meaning that I was trying to convey. I chose, after much debate, to leave the original poems’ texts out. This was my current way of letting go of ownership and releasing the creation.
Projects and Presentations
Media Experiment - WaterliliesNOTES
Virtual Collage
Discussion Question:
Media Presentation
MSA Storyland
Textual Features
typically the third character feels some way about the first character and the second character feels some way about the third
Reading Experience
Mostly passive interaction by the "reader" as there is no control able to be exerted over the textual environment once it begins. The lines appear at an easily readable rate that invites the reader to try to create meaning between each section of text. There is time for reflection at the end of the piece as the interactor must press "new story" to move on to another narrative. The focus of interaction is primarily based on attempting to establish coherent meaning between the various sections of the narrative which is sometimes, simply not possible.Water lilies Presentation Description
Melissa Uncreative